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Carolina NewsStand Archive: October 7-13, 2001
October 21, 2001 | General
Saturday, October 13, 2001
FB: Walk-on Standing Tall For Heels
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- A walk-on himself, Will Chapman didn't really scoff at the fellow across the
room that late August day two years ago. But he did do a triple-take...
FB: No Looking Back
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- Ronald Curry leaned back and spoke
softly, the only way he really speaks, of what had been
and what might be. So much. Just so much. He is 22...
MBB: Donherty Hints At Peppers' Return
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- Never mind that ESPN announcer
Stuart Scott could barely touch rim during his
introduction. "Midnight with the Tar Heels" began North
Carolina's basketball season late Friday night, with Scott
as the master of ceremonies, Brad Daugherty and Phil
Ford as coaches for the scrimmage, and UNC coach
Matt Doherty and his staff playing a little four-on-four.
Friday, October 12, 2001
MBB: New Approach For Tar Heels
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- Last year, it was apparent. Tight game, dwindling clock, get the ball to Joseph Forte and let him go to work. Sometimes it worked out, sometimes it didn't...
MBB: Capel Has Something To Prove
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Hindsight says it was the tale of two North Carolina basketball seasons...
MBB: Tar Heels Confident With History On Their Side
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Jason Capel and others have a few words for anyone who doubts the Tar Heels will be in the running for the top spot in the ACC this basketball season...
MBB: UNC Might Need Two Team Pictures
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina basketball coach Matt Doherty isn't counting on either of them, but hopes to have Ronald Curry and Julius Peppers after football season...
Thursday, October 11, 2001
FB: UNC Front Four Seeks Redemption
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- Julius Peppers is supposed to be dominant right now, in what he says will be his last season at North Carolina. He is supposed to be the one of the best players in the country, supposed to lead Carolina's defensive line, the strength of the Tar Heels...
MBB: Coming Up: Midnight With Matt
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- The UNC men's basketball season begins with a midnight practice on Friday at Carmichael Auditorium. "Midnight with the Tar Heels" is open and free to the public...
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
FB: Basketball In The Back Of Curry's Mind
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- Ronald Curry wants everyone to know that he's focusing on football, specifically this week's game in which he will lead North Carolina's offense against Virginia at Kenan Stadium (1:30 p.m. Saturday)...
FB: No Escape for Curry
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Ronald Curry never thought he would walk this path to the midpoint of his senior season, a path originally paved by outrageous expectations and later obstructed by injury and coaching upheaval...
FB: Curry Gets One Last Shot At Virginia
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- They've enjoyed this in Charlottesville. Ronald Curry of Hampton, Va., the guy who committed to Virginia then went to North Carolina, the greatest thing to hit Tidewater since defense contractors, is 0-3 against the Cavaliers...
FB: Boos Bounce Off The Armor UNC's Curry Has Developed
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- Mail is good, because Ronald Curry can open what he wants and throw the rest away. That's how he handled most of the criticism four years ago when he committed to home-state Virginia, changed his mind and signed with North Carolina...
Tuesday, October 9, 2001
Accidental Champions
Winston-Salem Journal/By John DeLong
They never planned it this way. They never envisioned playing together for more than a week or two, let alone becoming the second-best doubles team in the world...
Monday, October 8, 2001
FB: Jones Knows Football Isn't That Important
ESPN.com/By Len Pasquarelli
His trademark dreadlocks and imposing stature are typically enough to get Marcus Jones waved on through at the players entrance to Raymond James Stadium but, when bombs are falling in a desolate patch of desert thousands of miles away and smoke still smolders from the twisted rubble of the World Trade Center, no one gets a free pass...
UNC Near Contract With Nike
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina is close to a new multimillion-dollar contract with athletic apparel giant Nike that would keep all of UNC's athletes wearing the ubiquitous "swoosh" logo for the next several years, Carolina athletic director Dick Baddour said...
Sunday, October 7, 2001
FB: Heels Outstrip Pirates
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- Twenty years, even 20 days, didn't
matter much in the chill that hung over Kenan Stadium
on Saturday evening. So much has changed in both
those periods of time, what mattered was the right
here, the right now of the moment, a moment that
seemed impossible a month ago...
FB: Curry, Durant Make Two-QB System Work
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga and Al Myatt
CHAPEL HILL -- If John Bunting had to go with two
quarterbacks, as he has done for three weeks now,
he might have dreamed it would turn out as it did
Saturday, when he coached North Carolina to a 24-21
win over East Carolina...
FB: N.C. Championship Will Still Be Argued
Raleigh News & Observer/By Al Myatt
CHAPEL HILL -- When Mack Brown coached at North
Carolina, he took pride in state championships. There
was a point of contention, though, because the Tar
Heels didn't play East Carolina...
FB: Fate Against ECU Win
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
CHAPEL HILL -- It has almost become a rite of
passage for East Carolina football coaches to drag a
broken heart back to Greenville after games in Kenan
Stadium...
FB: Sensationally Surreal Win For Heels
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Ronald Curry walked off the field a winner at dusk Saturday, less
than two hours after getting booed by the home fans. It was just another surreal
series of events on a day of surrealism at Kenan Stadium...
FB: Quite A Scintillating Swipe
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- It will be remembered as the great chase and strip play, a moment
in North Carolina's suddenly surging football season when 5-9 Derrick Johnson of
the Tar Heels is seen chasing 5-9 Art Brown of the East Carolina Pirates...
FB: Strange, Wacky and Frustrating For Pirates
Durham Herald-Sun/By Guy Loranger
CHAPEL HILL -- Steve Logan and East Carolina fought through a lot Saturday at
Kenan Stadium...
FB: ECU Gets Respect, But Not Win
Fayetteville Observer/By Brett Friedlander
CHAPEL HILL -- Twenty years of waiting, for this?...
FB: UNC Wraps Up ECU
Fayetteville Observer/By Sammy Batten
CHAPEL HILL -- Derrick Johnson will always be able to look back and
say he had a hand in one of the most unusual plays in North Carolina
football history...
FB: Heels Rally Past Pirates In Second Half
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
CHAPEL HILL -- A play that appeared to come directly from the hustle hall of fame and quite a bit of
good fortune carried North Carolina past East Carolina for a 24-21 win at Kenan Stadium yesterday...
FB: Individual Efforts Lift UNC
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- One football. That's all North Carolina coach John Bunting
held in his hands. One game ball to award, and so many choices in the
Tar Heels' 24-21 victory Saturday against East Carolina - an outcome
that almost left Pirates coach Steve Logan in tears...
FB: Rowdy Fans Make Up For 20-Year Wait
Charlotte Observer/By Tom Sorensen
CHAPEL HILL -- There are 31/2 minutes left in the North Carolina-East
Carolina game when a Tar Heel fan in Section 131, we'll call him Barton,
becomes ever so upset at the East Carolina fans standing in front of him.
Barton does not want to stand, he wants the Pirate fans to sit. So he
begins to yell, "It's time to sit down! It's time to sit down!"...
FB: Tar Heels Say Their Confidence Gerows With Each Victory
Chapel Hill News/By Anthony Jeffries
CHAPEL HILL -- This was not the Hatfields and the McCoys, but it was close...
FB: Heels Makes It Three Straight With Win Over ECU
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- The fans, 58,500 strong, got their money's worth. North Carolina
got a victory. And East Carolina, for whatever it's worth to the Pirates, earned the
respect of everyone fortunate enough to watch Saturday's football game at
Kenan Stadium...
